COATESVILLE — Wissahickon High’s football team made history in the opening round of the District One Class AAAA football playoffs.

And the Trojans did it by capitalizing on every opportunity they got against undefeated, state-ranked and top-seeded Downingtown East.

But the only thing that was history after Friday night’s 42-21 quarterfinal-round loss to host Coatesville was Wissahickon’s season.

The ninth-seeded Red Raiders got three touchdown passes from quarterback Emmett Hunt and two running touchdowns from Daquan Worley en route to the victory, escorting the 16th-seeded Trojans from the postseason.

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Coatesville advances to next weekend’s district semifinals against Neshaminy, a 14-7 upset winner over Central Bucks South.

Wissahickon rattled all the Pennsylvania scholastic football world last weekend when it upset Downingtown East.

But the Raiders didn’t appear fazed by the Trojans’ heroics of a week ago.

With an offense that seemed one step faster than the Trojans and a defense that continually made clutch stops, the Raiders essentially did to Wissahickon what Wissahickon had done in its first-round upset.

“You have to give Coatesville credit,” said Trojans head coach Jeff Cappa. “They capitalized when they had to and took advantage of every chance they got.”

“That’s a great team,” echoed Wissahickon quarterback Randy Frankenfield. “Tonight, we got opportunities and didn’t capitalize, and they seemed to capitalize every time they had a chance.

“That’s what great teams do.”

Coatesville ignored last week’s press clippings and went about doing what it does best.

Beginning its first drive of the game at the Wissahickon 39 after a Trojans three-and-out and a short punt, it took Coatesville four plays to find the end zone.

Worley keyed the drive with a 26-yard gain on a screen play, then punched it in from the 3-yard line one play later.

Wissahickon continually moved the ball throughout the first half, and answered the Coatesville early score with a drive that reached the Raiders 41 before Dan Murphy was stuffed on fourth-and-one.

Four plays later, the Trojans defense created a turnover when Murphy sacked Hunt, whose fumble was covered by Trojans lineman Joe Gorman at the Coatesville 15.

But the home team’s defense rose up and allowed nothing on three plays. And when Greg McDonough’s 32-yard field goal attempt sailed wide, the Trojans’ upset hopes sailed away with it.

“We had a lot of momentum there,” Frankenfield said, “but they stepped up and stopped us.”

Coatesville then proceeded to build on its lead, stretching it to 14-0 when Hunt found Jones five yards behind the Wissahickon defense for a 55-yard score on the first play of the second quarter.

The ensuing Trojans drive got as far as the Red Raiders 36 before being turned away, and Coatesville went 81 yards on 12 plays the other way, with Jones snaring a 9-yard scoring pass from Hunt with 39 seconds remaining before halftime.

Wissahickon had one last hurrah, stopping Coatesville on its initial second-half possession, then rolling 61 yards on eight plays to get on the board.

A 23-yard run by Josh Smith and a 27-yard pass play from quarterback Randy Frankenfield to Dave Stellato got the ball to the Raiders 11, and Murphy bulled in from the 1 six plays later to make it 21-7 with 6:04 left in the quarter.

“I felt we had a chance at 21-7,” Cappa said, “but then they got a good kickoff return, good field position and took it away.”

Jones returned the ensuing short kickoff 39 yards to set Coatesville up at the Trojans 33.

Hunt found Tyler Burke on fourth down from the Wissahickon 16, and after a couple of missed tackles, Burke found paydirt and the Raiders found a 28-7 lead.

The ensuing Trojans possession resulted in another three-and-out, and a bad situation was made worse when Raider Brian Stringer blocked Tyler Brunner’s punt to give Coatesville the ball at the Trojans 4.

Worley scored from there to push the lead to four touchdowns and the patrons, many of whom got to the game late due to an accident on Rte. 30 involving a tractor trailer, got an early start to the exits.

“We had our chances,” Gorman said, “but in the end they were the team that capitalized on their chances. They’re a very good team. They’re very fast and executed well.”

Midway through the fourth quarter, the Trojans fumbled a punt into the end zone that was recovered by Coatesville’s Jason Totaram, and the running clock was counting down the end to Wissahickon’s season.

The Trojans kept playing hard and got late touchdown runs from Murphy and Stellato to make the score respectable.

But there would be no more historic wins.

“A lot of things could have gone different ways,” Cappa said.

“But we got a look at what the second round of district playoff football is like, and that should help us in the future.”

“I’m not happy with the loss,” Gorman said, “but I’m happy where our season went. I love all of these guys, and I loved playing with all of them.”